this is gona be a kinda long entry,provided andrea doesnt snatch the comp away as soon as she gets home.so here goes. first,updates: im in MJ now,though i tink everyone noes that by now.haha..06S302.n im the SCIENCE stream.yess i noe eewww.hahah..im in service learning club,n am in charge of some newletter thingy that im supposed to churn out every 2mths.ya,great.n best news of all. IM GOING TO THE UK THIS MONDAY!!!! yay!!!!!hahah..i haven been on a plane since like p6 la!ahha..ok fine in sec 3 i went on a plane to penang,but its not counted ok.cos it was a budget plane,n dere were flies on board n the airport wasnt even nice,cos i took it fr johor airport u see.hahah..so it lacked the excitement of boarding a REAL plane fr changi airport,where everything smells happy n gives out the vibe,"YAY,ITS THE HOLIDAYS!!!!"i noe u must be thinking,wat a spoilt pampered ignorant young s'porean.but no ok this just means i am extremely proud of changi airport n how far we've come.ok propaganda aside,im reali excited to be going to england.im going to london,bristol,bath n slapton leyy.its a sch geog field trip n nad,nas,sonam n all r going,so it will be fun!haha..n maybe just maybe,i'll get to meet prince william!:) ok now i wana share somethig ive read today,an excerpt fr the bk sleepwalking by nicola morgan. its a futuristic bk,abt ppl being stripped of emotions n language being banned n all art forms derived fr language being banned by inserting microchips in them n giving them drugs to disable their ability to feel pain n all,but just be calm n happy all the time. So (as always) there's a grp of them who refuse to do so n were banished to the outside of the city n they're called the outsiders.thats like the gist of the story anyway so here's an excerpt that realli made me think n re-read that part again.its narrated fr one of the 16 yr old Outsiders,Livia :
Made me think of that story Cicero told us. a thought experiment, he called it. Imagine a man,he said. Odysseus it was in the imagining, but it could be anyone. He's on a long journey on ship. And a part of the ship breaks, so he chucks the broken bit of wood overboard and replaces it with a new bit of wood. I don't know, maybe he stopped at an island to get the wood. Anyway a bit further on another bit of the ship is broken so he replaces that with a new bit of wood. It's still Odysseus' ship of course. And this continues, until by the time he reaches his destination, every single bit of the ship has been replaced by new wood. The question is,said Cicero, is it still Odysseus ship? and if not,when exactly did it become not Odysseus's ship? Because no part of it is the ship he started out in. Of course, if Odysseus had just scrapped the whole ship in one go and bought another, it'd be easy. The original ship would be dead and gone and the new one would be obviously a different ship. But the fact that it was gradual changes everything. Well its the same with ppl. Am i the same person as i was a year ago, just with some new bits, or has so much of me changed that I am dead and gone and have been replaced by someone totally different? And when did i become not me? it really struck me cos i realised when we say we dun love a person anymore cos heshe has changed, we blame the person dun we?but isit realli their fault they've changed?or do we love dem even more cos heshe has lost himherself n am just trying to find themselves,who they realli are.n most of all when it happens to us,do we embrace our new selves or go ard acting moody n being withdrawn,trying to change what we obviously cant, n pushing evryone ard u aside, in search of who we used to be?
ok thats all the deep stuff i can manage for one day.haha..i actualli hate thinking abt stuff like this, (though sometimes its necessary so as to get a grip on urself n reality) cos more often than not,u find urself as confused as before,stranded with no answers and even more qns.
so nxt time i write back her it'll prob be near my bday!yay!! sexy seventeen!ahhaha..ok wish me a great blessed trip, n happy holidays!!!
10:33:00 pm
riane*
*riane brittany francisco *born on the 1st of july 1989 *eurasian *i believe in Christ *ex-tkgian *4e7'05 *ex-SAJCian of 06S18 *MJC now! 06S302
*loves
~God! ~mr.princess ~dots ~salt ~mr.snowy who has gone home to be with the Lord ~glitter ~pedicures,manicures! ~beautiful beaches ~animals ~friends ~daydreams ~fun
Soul Music*
at the moment the song i'm in love with:
Gwen Stefani- the Sweet Escape
Jimmy Eat World- The Middle
ya i noe this one's old,but its the one keeping me going at the moment =)
you're currently listening to
and i'm lusting after
*that pretty white camera
*a new phone that sony ericsson cyber-shot one
*a room makeover
*a whole new glam wardrobe.
